• Proper deployment of weapon-mounted flashlights, and how to conduct a tactical search with a flashlight.

• How to conduct a flashlight search without unnecessarily covering innocents and minimizing personal risk.

• Perfecting "eyes off" manipulation of the weapon (loading, checking, unloading and clearing malfunctions).

• Using consistent presentation and proper stance to enable you to get hits, even without enough light to use your weapon sights.

• Movement in low-light conditions.

• "Failing Light" exercises.

• Position shooting with flashlights.

• Using lights over and around barricades.

• Systems for mounting lights to rifles.

• Target identification and multiple target exercises.

• Information on night-sights, night vision, optics and what works.

Cost: $260.00 (members of the host club receive a $25.00 discount). This includes range fees, targets, range supplies and handouts. Tuition is non-refundable within 30 days of the start date of the course. However, if the course is cancelled tuition will be refunded in full. Students to provide their own ammunition, personal gear and meals.

Course format: Lectures (approximately 3 hrs.) and live-fire exercises (approximately 10 hrs.); 2 days, 6:00 p.m. to about Midnight. Minimum 450 rounds of ammunition. A weapon-mounted light is required.

Instructor: Rangemaster will be Peter Georgiades. Mr. Georgiades is a graduate of the Gunsite Training Academy Law Enforcement Carbine Instructor Certification Course, Marksman's Enterprise (Jim Crews) 3 day instructor courses for both carbine and pistol, numerous instructor clinics, and the Contact Defense, LLC (Steve Tarani) "Contact Weapons Defense Instructor" course. He is certified to instruct by the NRA (rifle, pistol, shotgun and personal protection) and the State of Arizona (Certificate No. 8769268), and is a member of the International Ass'n. of Law Enforcement Firearms Instructors (IALEFI). Mr. Georgiades has trained extensively with some of the foremost firearms instructors in the U.S., and has been teaching since 1996. Range assistance will be provided by experienced range officers and instructors.

Class size: Enrollment will be limited to EIGHT students. Applications for enrollment must be received no later than 30 days prior to the start date of the course.

Prerequisites: You must be at least 18 years old, have no criminal history, and have completed a basic tactical carbine course, involving a minimum 21 hours of instruction, from a recognized school or professional instructor. Please read our prerequisites page and indicate your prior training experience on the Enrollment form.

Equipment Requirements:

There is certain equipment which is REQUIRED in every course. One may not proceed in the course without the following:

• Ear protection and Eye protection. Eye protection must be clear for the night shoot.

• Cap or hat with baseball-style bill. This is to prevent ejected brass from another shooter's rifle from falling between your eyewear and your eye, burning you. It is important gear.

• Firearm, clean and zeroed. Optics are optional; iron sights are fine. If you do use an optic, it should be of a low-power type (e.g., red-dot or Leitz-Elcan 2.4 X).

• At least two magazines. We prefer you have three, in case one malfunctions during the course. For reasons which will become apparent during the course, 20-round magazines are preferable to 30-round magazines, but 30-round magazines will work.

• Knee and elbow pads. The inexpensive kind worn by skateboarders, or pads worn by carpenters and carpet layers are fine.

• A weapon mounted Tactical Light is highly recommended as well as a hand held flashlight. Any hand held flashlight will suffice; the exception being those of the "lantern" variety.

• Magazine holster or pouch which is worn on your belt, on your support ("weak hand") side. BDU pockets do not work well.

• 450 Rounds of "Ball" Ammunition. We recommend students use one brand of ammunition throughout the course. Different brands and loads of ammunition will significantly affect the "zero" of AR15's, which will distract and confuse you in a course such as this. We also suggest students avoid the very cheapest ammunition and reloads. While "match grade" ammunition would be a waste of money, your investment in this course does justify the use of reasonably consistent ammunition. No incendiary, tracer or M855 ("penetrator") rounds are permitted.

• A sling. We run a "hot" range, and rifles must be slung unless they are racked, grounded or in the shooter's hand on line. Any type sling which allows the rifle to be carried muzzle up or muzzle down is fine. No slings which hold the muzzle in a horizontal position while being carried (M60 style) are permitted.

• A sidearm may be worn if part of your normal duty gear, but it will not be used during the course. Do not carry any hand gun in any manner other than in a hip holster on your strong side (no "pocket pistols").

There is other equipment that is not required, but which we know from experience will enhance your experience of the course. We therefore recommend you bring the following:

• Soft drinks or water to drink while down on the range. There is no water on the range itself, and the Club house is too far to run back and forth. No alcohol of any kind is to be consumed within eight hours of the start of any course session or at any time during the course.

• Back-up rifle. A second rifle is also a good idea, if you own or can borrow one. Firearms do break, and we cannot stop the course to make repairs. Even if we had time, parts may not be available, and many repairs cannot be accomplished in the field.

• Complete bolt assembly. If you do not have a second rifle, a complete bolt assembly will enable you to swap bolts as a 60 second repair to most rifle malfunctions.

• Binoculars, any size or power.

• A ground cloth, shooting mat or other cover (such as an old blanket), to cover the ground or concrete shooting pads upon which you will be periodically sitting or lying.

• Camera.

• Sight-adjustment tool for iron sights on your particular rifle (these are available at gun shows for about $4.00).

• Gloves (either shooting gloves or light work gloves).

For reasons which will become apparent as the course progresses, the lighter your rifle the better. We therefore recommend, if you can, using the carbine configuration of an AR15 type rifle (16-inch barrel, fixed stock), as opposed to the full-size battle rifle configuration (20-inch barrel). This is why the course is called "Basic Tactical Carbine." Although the full-sized rifles will work, as will rifles with heavy barrel ("H-BAR") configurations, they are harder to lift and hold. We therefore recommend you use a 16-inch upper for your rifle if you have one or can get one before the course.

Wear substantial shoes and "work clothes" or fatigues and a rain jacket. You will be on the ground and get dusty or muddy.